Currently in the market, Apple has expanded its product catalog much more , expanding its range of equipment such as the iPod, computers such as Mac, Tablets such as iPad and the distinguished iPhone to have new devices such as AirPods, Apple Watch to one of the most recent such as the AirTag, a locator that we can connect to our iOS system and track our belongings.
However, despite how positive it is to have the recent AirTags, these can also unfortunately be used for the wrong purposes, so if you have received an AirTag device that is not yours or your friends, there may be the possibility of that you are being tracked by someone, that is why we must take into account how to disable one of these devices.
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- How to disable an AirTag easily?
- How do I reset an AirTag if I want to use it again?
- How to disable ‘Find my iPhone’ or ‘Find my iPhone’?
How to disable an AirTag easily?
The AirTag as a locator device to locate our belongings in real time works excellently, since anywhere on the planet we can see where each of them is, however, this device in the wrong hands could be used for malicious purposes , like tracking a person.
Indeed, this could happen, even more so if they have placed an AirTag on a piece of belongings that we use but that we do not check frequently so that we do not realize it, however, Apple has thought about all these types of situations and has created all kinds of strategies. to prevent the AirTag from not being used for these purposes.
If you are an iPhone user, it can detect if there are AirTags not linked to us that are nearby, it will show us an alert with the name ‘AirTag found moving with you’, all this to in addition to indicating that there is an AirTag nearby also offer us options how to disable or disable the device.
After receiving the alert that there is an unlinked AirTag moving with us, we must look for this AirTag, once we have located it, click on the options of how to disable it, after this our iPhone will tell us how to remove the battery from the AirTag, so that so it cannot continue to function.
If you are an Android phone user, the process will not be exactly the same, since your cell phone will not be able to notify you that there is an AirTag nearby, however, the AirTag has programmed as a security measure if it is far from the iPhone with which it was configured, sound constantly until it is, therefore, within a range of 72 hours we will be able to hear the sound generated by the AirTag that they have placed on us.
Taking it for granted that there is an AirTag device with us that is not ours, once we have it in hand, if our Android has functions such as NFC, we will touch the white side of the AirTag, so our phone will open a web page with the information of the owner of If you have reported this AirTag as lost, we can follow the instructions to return it, otherwise we will follow the steps to disable it.
How do I reset an AirTag if I want to use it again?
It may happen that we want to use an AirTag that a friend has lent us and at the time of linking it we cannot connect it in the common way, this can happen for two reasons specifically, that the friend who has given it to you has forgotten to delete the AirTag from their account Apple ID, the other reason you can’t connect the AirTag to your iPhone is because it wasn’t removed from the previous user’s Bluetooth range.
In the case of deleting the AirTag from the previous Apple ID account , you will have to ask your friend to delete it from his account, for this he must search the Find app and enter the Articles section, being within this In the tab, the AirTag that was in use must be found and selected and then deleted, it must be confirmed again in Delete even though a message such as ‘AirTag not found’ appears.
In the other case regarding the Bluetooth range, the next thing we must do to reset the AirTag is the following:
- We will keep theAirTag battery cover pressed while we turn this cover to the left, this until it no longer turns.
- The next thing will be to remove this cover and the AirTag battery, to later replace the battery with a new one, we will press this new battery on the AirTag,until the device plays a sound.
- After this we will have to repeat again the steps of removing and replacingthe battery about four times, all this until we hear the sound that we will be hearing when repeating the process.
- Finally, we must carry out this process once more, however, at the moment of making this fifth attempt,when holding down the battery, we must hear a different sound from the previous sounds, this new sound will warn us that the AirTag is already has reset to link it again.
- We will replace the AirTag cover, apply pressure and turn againin the left direction and the AirTag will be ready to be used.
How to disable ‘Find my iPhone’ or ‘Find my iPhone’?
Options such as ‘Find my iPhone’ are useful options in the case of having many Apple products, since it allows us to have a mapped network of where each of our devices is located, especially if it is that we are in constant travel and could leave some of our equipment forgotten, however, some users may find this a disadvantage in the Privacy sections.
Since we are constantly sending our location of each of our devices, even if they have run out of battery they can send a last signal of where they were located, therefore for some users it is important to preserve their privacy and security, it is for This ends up disabling functions like these. But how are they deactivated? Well, the way to carry out this procedure is very simple.
It consists of going to the settings of our iPhone, clicking on our name and followed by going to the Find tab, being located in this section, we can deactivate functions such as ‘Find my iPhone’ and some other options of locations and locations.
